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Who then can understand the thunder of his power?&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/job/26.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />These are just the beginning of all that he does, merely a whisper of his power. Who, then, can comprehend the thunder of his power?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/job/26.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/job/26.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/job/26.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Lo, these <i>are</i> parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/job/26.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Indeed these <i>are</i> the mere edges of His ways, And how small a whisper we hear of Him! But the thunder of His power who can understand?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/job/26.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“Behold, these are the fringes of His ways; And how faint a word we hear of Him! But His mighty thunder, who can understand?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/job/26.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220Behold, these are the fringes of His ways; And how faint a word we hear of Him! But His mighty thunder, who can understand?&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/job/26.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“Behold, these are the fringes of His ways; And how faint a word we hear of Him! But His mighty thunder, who can understand?” <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/job/26.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Behold, these are the fringes of His ways; And how <i>only with</i> a whisper of a word do we hear of Him! But His mighty thunder, who can understand?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/job/26.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“Yet these are just the fringes of His ways [mere samples of His power], The faintest whisper of His voice! Who can contemplate the thunder of His [full] mighty power?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/job/26.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />These are but the fringes of his ways; how faint is the word we hear of him! Who can understand his mighty thunder?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/job/26.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />These are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the word we hear of Him! Who can understand His mighty thunder? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/job/26.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/job/26.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />These things are merely a whisper of God's power at work. How little we would understand if this whisper ever turned into thunder! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/job/26.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: and how small a whisper do we hear of him! but the thunder of his power who can understand?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/job/26.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />"These are only glimpses of what he does. We [only] hear a whisper of him! Who can understand the thunder of his power?"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/job/26.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />But these are only hints of his power, only the whispers that we have heard. Who can know how truly great God is? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/job/26.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Indeed, these are the fringes of his ways, and how faint is the whisper we've heard of it! But who can comprehend the thunder of his might?"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/job/26.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power??<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/job/26.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?" <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/job/26.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Look, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him. But the thunder of his power who can understand?"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/job/26.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/job/26.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?” <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/job/26.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Behold, these [are] the borders of His way, and how little a matter is heard of Him, and who understands the thunder of His might?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/job/26.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Lo, these are the borders of His way, And how little a matter is heard of Him, And the thunder of His might Who doth understand?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/job/26.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Behold these the ends of his ways; how transient a sound of the word was heard in him! and the thunder of his might who shall understand?<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/job/26.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Lo, these things are said in part of his ways: and seeing we have heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to behold the thunder of his greatness? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/job/26.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Behold, these things have been said about his ways in part, and, since we barely have heard a small drop of his word, who will be able to gaze upon the thunder of his greatness?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/job/26.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Lo, these are but the outlines of his ways, and what a whisper of a word we hear of him: Who can comprehend the thunder of his power? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/job/26.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />These are indeed but the outskirts of his ways; and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/job/26.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Lo, these are merely parts of his ways; and what evil thing have we heard against him? And the greatness of his might who can understand?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/job/26.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Behold these all are from the tip of his ways, and what evil statement has been heard about him, and the immensity of his heroism who comprehends? <div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/job/26.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Lo, these are but the outskirts of His ways; And how small a whisper is heard of Him! But the thunder of His mighty deeds who can understand?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/job/26.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Behold, these are parts of his way; and we will hearken to him at the least intimation of his word: but the strength of his thunder who knows, when he shall employ <i>it</i>?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/job/26-14.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XAwuD5NuZq0?start=3926" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/job/26.htm">Job: Who Can Understand God's Majesty?</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">13</span>By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent. <span class="reftext">14</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/2005.htm" title="2005: hen- (Interjection) -- Lo! behold! A primitive particle; lo!; also if.">Indeed,</a> <a href="/hebrew/428.htm" title="428: ’êl·leh (Pro-cp) -- These. Prolonged from 'el; these or those.">these are</a> <a href="/hebrew/7098.htm" title="7098: qə·ṣō·wṯ (N-fpc) -- An end. Feminine of qatseh; a termination.">but the fringes</a> <a href="/hebrew/1870.htm" title="1870: dar·kō (N-cpc:: 3ms) -- Way, road, distance, journey, manner. From darak; a road; figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb.">of His ways;</a> <a href="/hebrew/4100.htm" title="4100: ū·mah- (Conj-w:: Interrog) -- What? how? anything. ">how</a> <a href="/hebrew/8102.htm" title="8102: šê·meṣ (N-msc) -- A whisper. From an unused root meaning to emit a sound; an inkling.">faint</a> <a href="/hebrew/1697.htm" title="1697: dā·ḇār (N-ms) -- Speech, word. From dabar; a word; by implication, a matter or thing; adverbially, a cause.">is the whisper</a> <a href="/hebrew/8085.htm" title="8085: niš·ma‘- (V-Qal-Imperf-1cp) -- To hear. A primitive root; to hear intelligently.">we hear</a> <a href="/hebrew/bōw (Prep:: 3ms) -- ">of Him!</a> <a href="/hebrew/4310.htm" title="4310: mî (Interrog) -- An interrogative pronoun of persons, as mah is of things, who?; also whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix.">Who then</a> <a href="/hebrew/995.htm" title="995: yiṯ·bō·w·nān (V-Hitpael-Imperf-3ms) -- To discern. A primitive root; to separate mentally, i.e.(generally) understand.">can understand</a> <a href="/hebrew/7482.htm" title="7482: wə·ra·‘am (Conj-w:: N-msc) -- Thunder. From ra'am; a peal of thunder.">the thunder</a> <a href="/hebrew/1369.htm" title="1369: gə·ḇū·rå̄·ṯō (N-fpc:: 3ms) -- Strength, might. Feminine passive participle from the same as gibbowr; force; by implication, valor, victory.">of His power?”</a> </span><div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/19-1.htm">Psalm 19:1</a></span><br />For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/1-20.htm">Romans 1:20</a></span><br />For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/40-12.htm">Isaiah 40:12-14</a></span><br />Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance? / Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor? / Whom did He consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the paths of justice? Who imparted knowledge to Him and showed Him the way of understanding?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/104-24.htm">Psalm 104:24</a></span><br />How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/13-9.htm">1 Corinthians 13:9-12</a></span><br />For we know in part and we prophesy in part, / but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away. / When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/55-8.htm">Isaiah 55:8-9</a></span><br />“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. / “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/145-3.htm">Psalm 145:3</a></span><br />Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; His greatness is unsearchable.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-11.htm">Ecclesiastes 3:11</a></span><br />He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/colossians/1-16.htm">Colossians 1:16-17</a></span><br />For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him. / He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/40-26.htm">Isaiah 40:26</a></span><br />Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/139-6.htm">Psalm 139:6</a></span><br />Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ephesians/3-18.htm">Ephesians 3:18-19</a></span><br />will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth / of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/30-4.htm">Proverbs 30:4</a></span><br />Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son—surely you know!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/11-3.htm">Hebrews 11:3</a></span><br />By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/40-28.htm">Isaiah 40:28</a></span><br />Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">See, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?</p><p class="hdg">how little</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/11-7.htm">Job 11:7-9</a></b></br> Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/139-6.htm">Psalm 139:6</a></b></br> <i>Such</i> knowledge <i>is</i> too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot <i>attain</i> unto it.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/145-3.htm">Psalm 145:3</a></b></br> Great <i>is</i> the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness <i>is</i> unsearchable.</p><p class="hdg">the thunder</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/40-9.htm">Job 40:9</a></b></br> Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/2-10.htm">1 Samuel 2:10</a></b></br> The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/29-3.htm">Psalm 29:3</a></b></br> The voice of the LORD <i>is</i> upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD <i>is</i> upon many waters.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/job/23-9.htm">Acts</a> <a href="/job/24-2.htm">Borders</a> <a href="/esther/6-1.htm">Deeds</a> <a href="/job/24-24.htm">Ears</a> <a href="/job/23-16.htm">Faint</a> <a href="/numbers/15-39.htm">Fringe</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/22-12.htm">Fringes</a> <a href="/job/22-27.htm">Hear</a> <a href="/job/20-3.htm">Heard</a> <a href="/job/24-24.htm">Little</a> <a href="/job/24-22.htm">Mighty</a> <a href="/esther/6-5.htm">Outer</a> <a href="/job/11-8.htm">Outside</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/6-81.htm">Outskirts</a> <a href="/job/18-13.htm">Parts</a> <a href="/job/24-18.htm">Portion</a> <a href="/job/26-12.htm">Power</a> <a href="/job/15-20.htm">Small</a> <a href="/2_samuel/22-14.htm">Thunder</a> <a href="/job/23-5.htm">Understand</a> <a href="/job/24-23.htm">Ways</a> <a href="/job/4-12.htm">Whisper</a> <a href="/job/24-25.htm">Word</a> <a href="/job/23-9.htm">Works</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/psalms/9-11.htm">Acts</a> <a href="/psalms/74-17.htm">Borders</a> <a href="/job/34-25.htm">Deeds</a> <a href="/job/27-9.htm">Ears</a> <a href="/psalms/6-2.htm">Faint</a> <a href="/matthew/9-20.htm">Fringe</a> <a href="/matthew/23-5.htm">Fringes</a> <a href="/job/27-9.htm">Hear</a> <a href="/job/28-22.htm">Heard</a> <a href="/job/32-22.htm">Little</a> <a href="/job/27-2.htm">Mighty</a> <a href="/job/41-13.htm">Outer</a> <a href="/job/31-32.htm">Outside</a> <a href="/ezekiel/48-30.htm">Outskirts</a> <a href="/job/38-36.htm">Parts</a> <a href="/job/27-13.htm">Portion</a> <a href="/job/27-11.htm">Power</a> <a href="/job/36-27.htm">Small</a> <a href="/job/28-26.htm">Thunder</a> <a href="/job/32-8.htm">Understand</a> <a href="/job/27-11.htm">Ways</a> <a href="/psalms/41-7.htm">Whisper</a> <a href="/job/27-1.htm">Word</a> <a href="/job/33-17.htm">Works</a><div class="vheading2">Job 26</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/job/26-1.htm">Job, reproving the uncharitable spirit of Bildad</a></span><br><span class="reftext">5. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/job/26-5.htm">acknowledges the power of God to be infinite and unsearchable</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/job/26.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/job/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/job/26.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways;</b><br>This phrase emphasizes the vastness and incomprehensibility of God's actions and nature. In the context of Job, it highlights the limited understanding humans have of God's workings. The "fringes" suggest that what is observable or known about God is only a small part of His total being and activity. This aligns with other biblical passages such as <a href="/isaiah/55-8.htm">Isaiah 55:8-9</a>, where God's thoughts and ways are described as higher than human thoughts and ways. The imagery of "fringes" can also be connected to the idea of the hem of a garment, suggesting that what we perceive is just the outermost part of God's majesty.<p><b>how faint is the whisper we hear of Him!</b><br>This phrase suggests that human perception of God is limited and often indirect. The "whisper" implies a quiet, subtle revelation of God, contrasting with the full "thunder" of His power. This can be related to <a href="/1_kings/19-12.htm">1 Kings 19:12</a>, where God speaks to Elijah not in the wind, earthquake, or fire, but in a gentle whisper. It underscores the idea that God's communication with humanity is often not through grand displays but through subtle, personal interactions. The whisper also suggests the need for attentiveness and humility in seeking to understand God.<p><b>Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”</b><br>This rhetorical question underscores the theme of God's incomprehensible power and majesty. The "thunder" symbolizes God's might and authority, often associated with divine judgment and revelation, as seen in <a href="/exodus/19-16.htm">Exodus 19:16-19</a> during the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai. The question implies that if even the whisper of God is hard to grasp, the full extent of His power is beyond human comprehension. This reflects the broader biblical theme of God's transcendence and the limitations of human understanding, as seen in <a href="/romans/11-33.htm">Romans 11:33-34</a>, where Paul marvels at the depth of God's wisdom and knowledge. The thunder can also be seen as a type of Christ, who embodies the power and authority of God, yet is often misunderstood or unrecognized by the world.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/j/job.htm">Job</a></b><br>The central figure in the Book of Job, a man known for his righteousness and suffering. In this chapter, Job is responding to his friends, expressing awe at God's incomprehensible power.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a></b><br>The Creator and Sustainer of the universe, whose power and majesty are the focus of Job's speech in this passage.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/j/job's_friends.htm">Job's Friends</a></b><br>Although not directly mentioned in this verse, they are the audience of Job's discourse. They have been debating with Job about the nature of God and suffering.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_majesty_of_god.htm">The Majesty of God</a></b><br><a href="/job/26-14.htm">Job 26:14</a> reminds us of the vastness and majesty of God. Even the most profound human understanding only scratches the surface of His ways. This should lead us to a posture of humility and worship.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/human_limitations.htm">Human Limitations</a></b><br>Our understanding of God is limited. We must recognize that our knowledge is but a whisper compared to the thunder of His power. This should encourage us to trust in God's wisdom and sovereignty, even when we do not understand our circumstances.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_faith.htm">The Call to Faith</a></b><br>In acknowledging the limits of our understanding, we are called to live by faith. Trusting in God's character and His revealed word becomes essential when faced with the mysteries of His ways.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_reverence.htm">The Importance of Reverence</a></b><br>Recognizing the "fringes" of God's ways should lead us to a deeper reverence for Him. Our response should be one of awe and respect, acknowledging His greatness in our worship and daily lives.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_job_26.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Job 26</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_'born_to_trouble'_mean.htm">Can God do more than we can imagine?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/can_god_do_more_than_we_can_imagine.htm">Can God do more than we can imagine?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_god_just_a_placeholder_for_ignorance.htm">Science has explained many things once attributed to God (e.g., lightning, disease); isn’t God just a placeholder for ignorance?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_babylon's_fall_in_rev_18_2.htm">What constitutes the knowledge of God?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/job/26.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(14) <span class= "bld">These are parts.</span>--Literally, <span class= "ital">ends</span>--just the merest outskirts. For "is heard" we may render <span class= "ital">do we hear; </span>and for "the thunder of His power," <span class= "ital">the thunder of His mighty deeds. </span>We can only hear the faintest whisper of His glory, and cannot understand or endure the full-toned thunder of His majesty. Here, then, is Job's final reply to the arguments of his friends. He shows himself even more conscious than they of the grandeur and holiness of God; but that has in no way rendered his position as a sufferer more intelligible--rather the reverse--nor theirs as defenders of the theory of exact retribution. He cannot understand and they cannot explain; but while he rejects their explanations, he rests secure in his own faith.<span class= "bld"><p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/job/26.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 14.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Lo, these are parts of his ways</span>; literally, <span class="accented">ends of his ways</span>; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> the mere outskirts and fringe of his doings. <span class="cmt_word">But how small a portion is heard of him?</span> rather, <span class="accented">how small a whisper<span class="cmt_word">?</span> But the thunder of his power who can understand?,</span> or, the <span class="accented">thunder of his mighty deeds.</span> Job implies that he has not enumerated one-half of God's great works - he has just hinted at them, just whispered of them. If they were all thundered out in the ears of mortal man. who could receive them or comprehend them <p> <p> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/job/26-14.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Indeed,</span><br /><span class="heb">הֶן־</span> <span class="translit">(hen-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Interjection<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2005.htm">Strong's 2005: </a> </span><span class="str2">Lo! behold!</span><br /><br /><span class="word">these [are]</span><br /><span class="heb">אֵ֤לֶּה ׀</span> <span class="translit">(’êl·leh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_428.htm">Strong's 428: </a> </span><span class="str2">These, those</span><br /><br /><span class="word">but the fringes</span><br /><span class="heb">קְצ֬וֹת</span> <span class="translit">(qə·ṣō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7098.htm">Strong's 7098: </a> </span><span class="str2">A termination </span><br /><br /><span class="word">of His ways;</span><br /><span class="heb">דְּרָכָ֗יו</span> <span class="translit">(də·rā·ḵāw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1870.htm">Strong's 1870: </a> </span><span class="str2">A road, a course of life, mode of action</span><br /><br /><span class="word">how</span><br /><span class="heb">וּמַה־</span> <span class="translit">(ū·mah-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Interrogative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4100.htm">Strong's 4100: </a> </span><span class="str2">What?, what!, indefinitely what</span><br /><br /><span class="word">faint</span><br /><span class="heb">שֵּׁ֣מֶץ</span> <span class="translit">(šê·meṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8102.htm">Strong's 8102: </a> </span><span class="str2">An inkling</span><br /><br /><span class="word">is the whisper</span><br /><span class="heb">דָּ֭בָר</span> <span class="translit">(dā·ḇār)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1697.htm">Strong's 1697: </a> </span><span class="str2">A word, a matter, thing, a cause</span><br /><br /><span class="word">we hear</span><br /><span class="heb">נִשְׁמַע־</span> <span class="translit">(niš·ma‘-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8085.htm">Strong's 8085: </a> </span><span class="str2">To hear intelligently</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Him!</span><br /><span class="heb">בּ֑וֹ</span> <span class="translit">(bōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> </span><span class="str2"></span><br /><br /><span class="word">Who then</span><br /><span class="heb">מִ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(mî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Interrogative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4310.htm">Strong's 4310: </a> </span><span class="str2">Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix</span><br /><br /><span class="word">can understand</span><br /><span class="heb">יִתְבּוֹנָֽן׃</span> <span class="translit">(yiṯ·bō·w·nān)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_995.htm">Strong's 995: </a> </span><span class="str2">To separate mentally, understand</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the thunder</span><br /><span class="heb">וְרַ֥עַם</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ra·‘am)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7482.htm">Strong's 7482: </a> </span><span class="str2">A peal of thunder</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of His power?”</span><br /><span class="heb">גְּ֝בוּרוֹתָ֗יו‪‬</span> <span class="translit">(gə·ḇū·rō·w·ṯāw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1369.htm">Strong's 1369: </a> </span><span class="str2">Force, valor, victory</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/job/26-14.htm">Job 26:14 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/job/26-14.htm">Job 26:14 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/job/26-14.htm">Job 26:14 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/job/26-14.htm">Job 26:14 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/job/26-14.htm">Job 26:14 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/job/26-14.htm">Job 26:14 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/job/26-14.htm">Job 26:14 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/job/26-14.htm">Job 26:14 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/job/26-14.htm">Job 26:14 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/job/26-14.htm">Job 26:14 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/26-14.htm">OT Poetry: Job 26:14 Behold these are but the outskirts (Jb) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/job/26-13.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 26:13"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 26:13" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/job/27-1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 27:1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 27:1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>